Fractal dimension of chromatin: potential molecular diagnostic applications for cancer prognosis

K Metze - Expert review of molecular diagnostics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Fractal characteristics of chromatin, revealed by light or electron microscopy, have been
reported during the last 20 years. Fractal features can easily be estimated in digitalized …

The fractal dimension of chromatin-a potential molecular marker for carcinogenesis, tumor progression and prognosis

K Metze, R Adam, JB Florindo - Expert review of molecular …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Fractality is omnipresent in medicine and life sciences. In particular, the fractal
principle is found simultaneously at different organization levels of the cell nucleus. The aim …

LPCANet: Classification of laryngeal cancer histopathological images using a CNN with position attention and channel attention mechanisms

X Zhou, C Tang, P Huang, F Mercaldo… - Interdisciplinary …, 2021 - Springer
Laryngeal cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in otolaryngology, and
histopathological image analysis is the gold standard for the diagnosis of laryngeal cancer …

[BUCH][B] Perspectives on organisms

G Longo, M Montévil - 2014 - Springer
In this book, we propose original perspectives in theoretical biology. We refer extensively to
physical methods of understanding phenomena but in an untraditional manner. At times, we …

Shape matters: morphological metrics of glioblastoma imaging abnormalities as biomarkers of prognosis

L Curtin, P Whitmire, H White, KM Bond, MM Mrugala… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Lacunarity, a quantitative morphological measure of how shapes fill space, and fractal
dimension, a morphological measure of the complexity of pixel arrangement, have shown …

Computer aided diagnosis for confocal laser endomicroscopy in advanced colorectal adenocarcinoma

D Ştefănescu, C Streba, ET Cârţână, A Săftoiu… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) is becoming a popular method for optical
biopsy of digestive mucosa for both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Computer aided …

Fractal dimension of chromatin is an independent prognostic factor for survival in melanoma

V Bedin, RL Adam, BCS de Sá, G Landman, K Metze - BMC cancer, 2010 - Springer
Background Prognostic factors in malignant melanoma are currently based on clinical data
and morphologic examination. Other prognostic features, however, which are not yet used in …

[PDF][PDF] A brief overview of hyperthermia in cancer treatment

G Baronzio, G Parmar, M Ballerini, A Szasz… - J Integr …, 2014 - researchgate.net
Despite the large economic and intellectual efforts, cancer is still not easily treatable disease
by conventional therapies. This led ultimately to reconsider hyperthermia, like one of …

[HTML][HTML] Multifactorial estimation of clinical outcome in HPV-associated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma via automated image analysis of routine diagnostic …

J Hue, Z Valinciute, S Thavaraj, L Veschini - Oral Oncology, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Routine haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) photomicrographs from human
papillomavirus-associated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (HPV+ OpSCC) …

Lymphoma and leukemia cells possess fractal dimensions that correlate with their biological features

A Mashiah, O Wolach, J Sandbank, O Uziel… - Acta …, 2008 - karger.com
Background: Living cells can be viewed as complex adaptive systems that exhibit non-linear
dynamics and fractal features. We investigated the fractal qualities of normal and malignant …